Sentences with phrase «of lobbying money»

Though it's difficult to exactly trace the influence of lobbying money, by its very nature, both Philpott and OpenSecrets squarely place the blame for recent failures of efforts to label GMO ingredients in Congress, as well as the FDA thoroughly dragging its feet on GMO labeling, questioning the validity of petitions demanding labeling, on the massive influence of Monsanto.

Crowley sits on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means, the second largest target of lobbying money from Pfizer in 2014.

Not exact matches

In a time when tech companies are starting to behave like industry giants of the past, taking their interests — and their money — to K Street to influence legislation (consider Mark Zuckerberg's immigration lobby), it seems natural that several of these scrappy sharing - based start - ups are beginning to band together.

Since then, Google has been shoveling increasing amounts of money into government lobbying, but has been notably quieter in the public domain on such issues.

«Whether they made their money lobbying lawmakers at the Capitol or cashed in on a tech IPO, rich millennials are clustered in cities where there are lots of high - paying professional jobs,» reads a post today on Zillow's Porchlight blog.

It spends most of that money on, as far as I can tell, lobbying to be able to operate in different cities.

The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.

Not hard because the lobbying money is all lined up on the side of the broker - dealer world.

«A broad coalition of investors wants companies to tell stockholders and the public more about so - called «dark money» spent both in campaigns and on lobbying by groups that use corporate money and don't say where it comes from,» Welsh of Si2 said.

Yet in spite of this power, most S&P 500 companies lack a formal system of lobbying oversight and don't fully disclose how monies are being spent, particularly through third - party organizations like trade associations.

For example, special assessment condo insurance might cover cost of damages from a fire in the lobby if it exceeds the money your association has available for repairs.

In October, Mueller charged Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates with money laundering and failing to properly disclose their lobbying work on behalf of foreign clients.

This leaves them without enough money to sustain the living standards of recent years — and they no longer can wipe out their debts by declaring bankruptcy as in times past, because Congress has passed the harsh bankruptcy law that credit - card and bank lobbies paid them to pass.

Shortly after tweeting that Boeing's contract to build the next Air Force One should be canceled, Dec. 6, President - elect Trump told reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower he wants the company «to make a lot of money but not that much money.»

These organizations grew from small grass - roots groups to highly professionalized, slick lobbying operations with the aid of Atlantic money, and all were prominent in the campaign to pass this referendum.

What we as American's are stuck with are Republicans and Democrats who swing things to those with the most money that lobby them regardless of wither they are good for the country or not.

Also, statutory bodies take on lobbying roles using government money to identify specific elements of civil society and give the artificial prominence.

Are the Arabs THAT DUMB, in your opinion, that they can not even create their own lobby considering the almost unlimited amount of money they have?

Your voice Advocate: Join organizations like Greenpeace in lobbying Congress, raising money and educating communities about the realities of global warming.

As I've often noted, the Time for Lunch site is invaluable for learning more about the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act and for finding ways to get involved, from donating money for their lobbying efforts to contacting your own legislators.

Take lobbying out of politics and rhrow doctors in jail for accepting money and gifts from Pharma and you'll see how much everything will change.

Instead, it was the Edna Gladney Home, an agency in Fort Worth Texas, who went to its supporters, comprised mainly of adoptive parents, to raise money for a lobbying organization to defeat the open records provisions of the Model State Adoption Act.»

Spending boatloads of money on professional lobbying and a massive postcard campaign to legislators, the organization and their deep - pocketed friends like PepsiCo, Coca - Cola, Con Agra and Schwan's killed the state school nutrition bill, ensuring many more years of junk food for New York's schoolchildren.

The Hagstrom Report (subscription only) reports that Stan Garnett, former director of child nutrition at the Agriculture Department, «has resigned from the School Nutrition Association over its efforts to encourage members to lobby Congress to pass a bill requiring the USDA to waive healthier school meal requirements to any school that says it has lost money in the program for six months.»

Pharmaceutical companies won't see it that way, and they have a lot of money available, thanks to the high prices of their products, to lobby lawmakers with arguments about safety standards and the like.

But this bill does nothing to clean up lobbying or to keep big money out of politics.

The sums of money can be huge, with some estimates suggesting that the UK lobbying industry generates hundreds of millions of pounds per year.

In this case, though, the ad appears in a paper aimed directly at congressmembers, congressional staff and the lobby community, who by many accounts pay attention to who's buying space in Roll Call, The Hill, Congress Daily, etc. — both for the direct messages and for the indirect message sent about who's willing to spend money to raise the profile of their issues.

Impediment of candidature to capable and interested people because they don't fit some requirements implanted by the majority parties as millions of signatures, of high sums of money, and if they fit the requirements the media lobbies won't support most of the candidates because many of them are happy with the benefits given by big parties.

«The Chair of the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee makes extra money by working at a law firm that lobbies on conservation issues.

Firefighters, who were at the Capitol today to lobby for two priority bills, say that like local governments they are hindered by a 2 percent property tax cap and are increasingly running the risk of slashing EMS services if the money to pay for services isn't there.

I suppose the benefit is that those with money would be able to influence policy much more directly than the current system of lobbying and donations.

Some money is being diverted - like the # 200m spent on the tiny island of St Helena's new airport, after apparent lobbying from Lord Ashcroft - equivalent to the DfID's entire budget for clean water and sanitation.

Susan Lerner, Executive Director of Common Cause / NY, noted that «Hydraulic fracturing has been one of the most polarizing issues in recent history, with no shortage of political money invested by pro-fracking interests to achieve a favorable outcome... New York State needs comprehensive campaign finance and lobbying reform to assure New Yorkers that public policy is based on their interest, not the special interests.»

MATT MURPHY: My theory is that the industry through lobbying groups donated — a certain amount of money to politicians to get a law passed that favored the industry.

Williams tells us about some of the ridiculous issues he's lobbied for, the steady flow of money that congresspeople need, and how he wants to take down the crazy campaign finance system.

They worried that the gun lobby would spend a lot of money and paint them as anti-Second Amendment.

This prompts the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association to ask: why does Bloomberg spend so much time and so much of his own money harassing firearms dealers and lobbying to restrict the Second Amendment rights of New Yorkers and all Americans?

But let's not forget the lobbying power of major contractors, financiers and consultants who make their money out of the success (and sometimes the failure) of such projects.

The lobbying in favor of getting big money out of politics — be it in the form of personal meetings with decision makers or through well - financed TV ad and mail campaigns — has, ironically, been a costly one in recent years.

The group will be lobbying for more money for anti smoking programs, and the boosting of media campaigns.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Seminerio to six years in prison Feb. 4 for abusing his power as a lawmaker and extorting money out of hospitals, nonprofits and other groups in exchange for lobbying state officials on their behalf.

The American Chemistry Council has spent considerable amounts of money to lobby against the Child Safe Products Act, state records show.

Although the settlement with New York's Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) presents the first public admission of the funding source, Glenwood's backdoor funneling of anonymous lobbying money to Pledge 2 Protect was well documented.

Specifically, the investigations are said to be looking into whether de Blasio accepted money from donors who had business before the city or were lobbying the city to secure specific projects and contracts, and whether a team of de Blasio aides illegally routed money to candidates in State Senate races in 2014.

Pledge 2 Protect will now have to amend its lobbying forms to show Glenwood was the real source of the money it received from Marquart & Small.

Meanwhile, the flow of political donations from centenarian Leonard Litwin's Glenwood slowed to a trickle following the arrests in Albany, and the real estate industry as a whole is falling behind in spending as hedge funds pump money into lobbying for education reform.

McLaughlin's largest contribution was $ 1,300 from State & Broadway State PAC, a lobbying firm, however most of the money raised has come from small, individual donors.

Businesses, being businesses, will invest these massive amounts of money because the politicians, being beholden to them for their positions, and for lucrative «revolving door» lobbying or consulting positions, post-office, will pass measures that pay back those businesses many times over through legislation and direct government spending that favors those contributors.